- Fire usually moves faster uphill than downhill.
- Alan Turing was a British mathematician and computer scientist who cracked German ciphers (codes) in the Second World War, contributed to mathematical logic and played an important role in the development of algorithms, artificial intelligence and the modern computer.
- You are 1% shorter in the evening than you are in the morning.
- Before 1863 the postal service in the US was free.
- Stewardesses is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
- 'fan' is short for 'fanatic'.
- The bumblebee bat weighs less than a penny.
- Before 1850 golf balls were made of leather and were stuffed with feathers.
- Mint comes in over 30 varieties.
- Wild cobras can live up to 20 years old.
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